That’s right, this ad says that only men are welcome to work at “Venezuela’s best mayorship”. You, Alcaldía de Sucre, are telling all women to refrain from applying, because programming is a man’s job.

I am disappointed at your overt sexism. We’re striving to create a society in which men and women have equal rights. This policy would be bad enough coming from a private company, but it is incredibly damaging coming from you, a democratic body. You didn’t prevent your female voters from going to the polls, did you?

Including women isn’t just the right thing to do politically, it also makes a lot of economic sense. When we decrease the gap between women’s and men’s participation in the labor force, the economy grows. Venezuelan men and women need to work together to get out of the terrible crisis our country is going through. Programming specifically, as I’m sure you know, has the potential to make processes more efficient and improve our quality of life.